Men from her past keep reappearing in her life, and hard- hitting security specialist Jersey Barnes can't seem to enjoy early retirement. This time, it's her former handler Ashton, back from when she worked for the government. There has been some high frequency chatter targeting the Sunny Point Ammunitions Depot and they want Jersey to be a set of eyes and ears by serving breakfast from the 'roach coach' --a mobile food vending cart.

Unwittingly thrown back in action, Jersey unveils the suspected threat but meanwhile, discovers a much larger and much more sinister plot in the works.Southern Poison moves at break-neck speed as Jersey must save herself from assassins, interrupt a glitterati wedding, stop the bad guys from distributing a tainted product, keep her trouble- making father and his poker buddies out of jail, investigate a budding romance, and maybe—just maybe—retire.